Western Morning News (Saturday)
The things they say
■ “It was like having an inside person in every top organised crime group in the country”
- National Crime Agency director of investigations Nikki Holland praises an international operation that hacked into an encrypted communication system used by criminals trading in drugs and guns.
■ “Returning to normal educational routines as quickly as possible is critical to our national recovery”
- Education Secretary Gavin Williamson wants children to school by September.
■ We cannot allow the BBC to sleepwalk into a death by a thousand cuts, which will inevitably see people switch off because they aren’t getting the service they want”
- The NUJ calls for Government intervention to protect BBC jobs after it announced plans to axe 450 regional roles.
■ “I think it’s finally time for me to turn off my alarm clock and rest”
- DJ Dotty announces she will be leaving the BBC Radio 1Xtra breakfast show at the end of July after six years with the station.
■ “They’ve put their duty to our country ahead of spending time with their families during the pandemic and, in the process, they’ve taken us a step closer to once again having a carrier strike capability with the capacity to project British influence across the globe”
- Armed forces minister James Heappey praises the
crew of the HMS Queen Elizabeth after they spent
10 weeks training at sea.
■ “The baton is being passed on from two formidable actresses and I really don’t want to let the side down”
- Leslie Manville on following Vanessa Kirby and Helena Bonham Carter
in playing Princess Margaret in The Crown.
■ As we all start to visit more places and come into contact with a wider group of people in the coming weeks, we now need businesses and the public to play their part in this new national effort by sharing their contact details
NHS Test and Trace executive
chair Baroness Harding